Dave: The more one thinks about growing alfalfa on that type soil, just maybe we could grow it hydroponically. Allan made the remark the other day, that I had very little soil, and he's right, yet it grew yields of alfalfa unheard of most places. Windrowing with a 9' haybine, 656 on 16.9x38 tires, I just had marginally enough clearence over the windrows with alfalfa in bud stage. I often had to put a pan under hitch to keep it from draging the windrows. We did not rake windrows together ever, those 9' windrows would keep 1066 with 890 NH harvester in 3rd maybe 4th on the low side. In that short season we only got two cuttings but each were close to or over 5 ton dry matter per acre.
Our worst fear was ice jambs during the spring run off, especially if receeding flood water froze creating ice layer with late March and April sun shining through the ice, causing alfalfa to start growing. More than one case of dynamite was used on ice jambs. The river would hold the water if the melt was slow enough.
That land will all become nonusuable in the next 25 years. In the late 80s enviormentalists started raising hell about bulldozers and excavators cleaning gravel bars out of the chanel. Government knuckled under and passed a law banning gravel removal. You couldn't even hire a dozer, the government passed a law stating they could seize and sell a piece of heavy equipment caught working in the river. Without gravel removal, the water table will rise and that land will go back to what it was in the 1930s. Hardly dare cross with a team of horses. When I left there, loaded tractor trailers could drive on it. You didn't need to worry about crushing Big O. The gravel down 8' was your drainage. Hundreds of farmers worked hard in the 40s and 50s to make that land what it was, and it will all be lost. Progress they call it, want sport fishing in the river. We even proved to them there was more spaun in the gravel where heavy equipment had worked.
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